Unpack the contents of the Nextbug file in the “extensions/” folder inside Bugzilla (a NextBug folder will be created).

In NextBug folder there is a “required_libs” subfolder with Perl libraries. Install the libraries to your Perl interpreter (follow the instructions for each library). NextBug-1.x requires four libraries: Lingua-Stem-Snowball, Lingua-StopWords, Log4perl, and Math-Random-ISAAC.

Set the NextBug folder (and all its subfolders) permissions, ownership and group to be the same as Bugzilla. Examples:

Setting the permissions: “chmod -R 751 NextBug/”

Setting the owner: “chown -R <bugzilla-owner> NextBug/”

Setting the group: “chgrp -R <bugzilla-group> NextBug/”.

Remove the “disabled” file inside the NextBug folder.

Enjoy the features of NextBug.

Help Us Improve NextBug

NextBug is an academic project developed by members of this research group. If you are a NextBug user and wish to help us improve this tool, you can do it in one of the following ways (no money required):

Send to us the NextBug log files (two files inside a “log” folder in the NextBug). The log files contains only anynomous usage information that will help us analyse and improve NextBug according to a real usage enviroment.

We strongly recommend using the current version of NextBug, as it includes all features of previous versions plus new ones. The current version may also have improvements over the internal components. However, if still want to try an old version, here is the download list.